Grandma's Birthday

We celebrated Grandma Trujillo's birthday this weekend over at our house. We had the whole family over to enjoy Ribs and Chicken for dinner and then a yummy dessert - Molten Cake! It was a wonderful dinner and dessert and as always the Trujillo family is a "hoot" to hang out with - lots of laughs! This year for Grandma Trujillo's birthday we all pitched in and are having a custom built-in installed in her family room - She was VERY excited for this little surprise since she has been asking and waiting for one a long time. The cabinets should arrive in late January and I can't wait to see the look on her face when they are finally installed! I think she has already started buying little things to decorate the shelving with...


Thank you so much Grandma Trujillo for all your love and everything you do for our family - we are so grateful to be blessed with such a wonderful, loving lady! Love you lots and Happy Birthday!

Happy New Years!

This year for New Year's we thought we would do something a little bit different - we decided to take a trip up to Red Feather and stay in my families cabin. Now the cabin has no running water, but it does have electricity so I wasn't sure how it would be in the cold weather. Well, we ended up having the best time ever! We invited our friends Jason, Stacey and their son Adam who is the same age as Ashtyn, whom definitely made the trip more interesting. Jason and Matt were in heaven with all the snow and played like little boys on their 4-Wheelers. We eventually got the two little ones all bundled up to go play in the snow and had a great time! We took them on the 4-Wheelers and then went sledding - they weren't too sure about the sledding part, but us big kids had a great time!

It was great to spend some time with the Ohlhieser's especially getting to know Adam who is quite a little boy! - oh he would make us laugh so much with the things he says and does - Ashtyn would just watch him - I wonder what she was thinking most the time! I think my favorite thing is how Adam gets his mom's attention by saying "Hey Mama" but in a sexy kinda voice - he definitely made me laugh! Ashtyn loves to color so we invited Adam to join us, but instead of gently coloring he would just eat the crayons and then spit them out - I guess that is just the difference between boys and girls!

.It was a beautiful, relaxing and fun way to bring in The New Year - maybe it will become a tradition of ours! Happy 2010!

Christmas continued...

In the Afternoon we headed over to Aunt Pam's to celebrate Christmas with my side of the family. It was so nice to see everyone and of course the food was AMAZING! We really do have the best cooks in my family... After eating we once again opened presents from Mimi! Ashtyn was a pro by now, and was so happy to finally get the present she asked Santa for - her play house! She opened her house and instantly started playing with it! She even clapped her hands for this one...

It was a great afternoon of enjoying family, eating, relaxing and eating some more! We had a great Christmas this year - so sad to see it go by so quickly, but enjoyed every minute of it! Merry Christmas!

SANTA Came...

This was the first year Santa visited our home and it was quite exciting for Ashtyn. Ashtyn woke up not knowing this day was any different, but when Matt came downstairs with her she was so surprised to find some new things waiting for her.




Santa brought Ashtyn a new Activity table, an Art Easel and art supplies! Santa also stuffed her stocking with M&M's her favorite and Dora stuff - movies and a toothbrush! Ashtyn broke into everything right away - she was just so excited. She started painting pictures and was amazed she could now use chalk in the house on her new chalk board!

Nana, Papa and Kevin came over Christmas morning to have breakfast and open presents. Ashtyn got Papa and Kevin quickly involved in her new gifts. Papa helped her color a picture and Uncle Kev played with the Play Doh - I think they all enjoyed this precious time!


After breakfast, we opening another set of presents from Nana and Papa - Ashtyn was now aware of what to do and was even more excited to see what she got. Nana and Papa bought her a computer complete with a mouse - which Ashtyn was just amazed with, she LOVES computers! And Uncle Kev bought her a cash register with money! So many new toys...


We are definitely some lucky people to be able to have such a great Christmas and enjoy family all at the same time. We got some great gifts and most importantly got to spend the morning with the ones we love so much!

Christmas Eve...

Christmas Eve is my favorite - I am not sure why, I guess because most of the day is laying around and getting all the last minute things ready for Christmas and there is still just so much excitement. I know as a kid I was always so excited for this day - We always had our big family dinner with the entire extended family, and then went to my Great Grandma's house for dessert and presents - I really miss this tradition, but with all the families growing it just had to end. And then of course I was always excited for Santa, so I guess as an adult I just still feel that same excitement, especially now that I have my own children to create amazing traditions for! This year we started some new family traditions. We had the Trujillo family over to our home for Christmas Eve. Everyone came over and we played Scrabble - Sandy WON! watched Elf, had a wonderful dinner, steak with lots of other great dishes, and then opened presents! This was the first year Ashtyn could really open a presents, which she finally figured out what to do although she was very slow at opening her presents. She would open one and the would have to play with it before she would consider opening another one - so it was a long process, but very fun to see her eyes light up with every gift she opened. Ashtyn got tons of new toys, a real digital camera, an ATM machine, baby stroller with matching swing and play pen, a cute outfit, a blender, a coffee maker and her favorite thing of all a light box that looks like an aquarium - she LOVES this thing! It is her new night light in her room, and she had to show everyone who came over. After opening presents we played "White Elephant" a new tradition with the Trujillo family - which I think was more fun then getting real presents. The gifts definitely made us laugh and I am sure there are some gifts we will see over and over for years to come - especially the Santa shorts! It was a wonderful Christmas Eve and I wouldn't have chose it to be any different, I hope my kids get as excited for this night as I did which I was a kid.